Neo-Nihilism Quotes

“Those so-called atheists who try to base prescriptive morality on biology are guilty of the aforementioned conflation of descriptive and prescriptive morality, a conflation that costs them their authority. Those who argue that morality comes from evolution: that we have evolved sympathy and altruism and that we therefore ought to be sympathetic and altruistic fall into the is-ought gap. That we have evolved these characteristics is not in question. But that we ought to follow them is. The characteristics are descriptions. But these descriptions are then magically transformed into prescriptions. One could equally validly (i.e. not validly) prescribe envy as it too is a characteristic which we have evolved. Aggression and violence have also evolved, else we would not exhibit these tendencies. Both ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in the traditional sense) have evolved. To”
― Peter Sjöstedt-H, Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power

“Everything that lives instinctually seeks power, survival is merely the lowest degree of that drive to power: one cannot gain power if one is not alive to do so. Thus does Nietzsche assimilate the will to survive into the will to power. All morality, all law, all ideology, are merely expressions of this primal drive.”
― Peter Sjöstedt-H, Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power

“Homosexuality was a crime until the late 1960s in the United Kingdom. In the early 21st Century homophobia has almost reached the status of a crime. This change does not reflect moral progress or retrogress, but merely that an older Christian power base lost power to a new base, a form of Liberalism. Neither power base is objectively better nor worse, they are mere competitors. Where”
― Peter Sjöstedt-H, Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power

“A state is a power structure that promotes law inside but war outside. It is in its essence a very large gang. Internal laws of harmony maintain its power, and external acts of violence advance its power.”
― Peter Sjöstedt-H, Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power

“We humans are still animals, our intellect merely provides greater expedients to that same brute nature.”
― Peter Sjöstedt-H, Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power